Yet the International Shark Attack File reports that the number of shark attacks has, in fact,decreased in recent years.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

A statement noted that while food prices have decreased from their peak last year, they remain high in historical terms.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

The number of Japanese students in the United States decreased for the fourth year, to just over twenty-nine thousand.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

The report said the rate of pneumonia in adults after surgery decreased more than eleven and a half percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

But she wrote that women's roles decreased over time as the Cherokee people accepted the values of the larger American culture.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

But a national survey found that in recent years foreign language teaching decreased in public elementary and middle schools.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

The report says the bugs invaded after farmers decreased their use of insecticides by planting Bt cotton.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

The studies found that the mistake rate in two intensive-care areas decreased when interns worked fewer hours.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

With increased use of Chinook Jargon and English, the number of people speaking their native languages decreased.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

It shows that the risk of fisheries collapse has recently decreased in some areas some,but not all.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says deforestation has decreased over the past ten years.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

In East Asia new infections with the virus that causes AIDS have decreased almost twenty-five percent.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

They found the HCAs in the meat marinated in spices had decreased up to eighty-eight percent.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

It shows that the risk of fisheries collapse has recently decreased in some areas,but not all.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Being in a warmer environment,up to a point, will lead to decreased energy expenditure and therefore, at the same amount of food intake,weight gain."

VOA: special.2010.12.21

Also,the number of slaughterhouses in the United States has decreased sharply since the nineteen eighties.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

He said for the first time, the rate of deforestation has decreased around the world.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

Vertebrate species,for example, decreased by nearly one-third between nineteen seventy and two thousand six.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Worldwide,in the last forty years, death rates have decreased nineteen percent for men.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

The study found their hipbone strength decreased by an average of fourteen percent.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

This causes lower blood pressure, reduced muscle tension and decreased heart rate.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

During the nineteen seventies, his popularity decreased as disco music became popular.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

American exports decreased almost 2% in November from a year earlier.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Japanese exports decreased almost 27% in November from a year earlier.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

And,new infections have decreased almost twenty-five percent in East Asia.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

Smoking rates have decreased in the United States and Europe.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

Violence in Iraq has decreased over the last three years.

VOA: special.2010.08.07